Economic sectors
This sector includes farming, fishing, and mining.
What is the primary sector?
This is the average income per person in a country.
What is GDP per capita?
Industries often locate near these to reduce transport costs.
What are raw materials?
Moving from one part of a country to another.
What is internal migration?
Lack of jobs is an example of this kind of factor.
What is a push factor?
Manufacturing and construction are part of this sector.
What is the secondary sector?
This index combines life expectancy, education, and income.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
A reason for locating near skilled labor.
What is access to a qualified workforce?
Migration from a rural area to a city.
What is rural-to-urban migration?
Better healthcare is an example of this kind of factor.
What is a pull factor?
The sector involving services like retail, banking, and education.
What is the tertiary sector?
A country with low HDI and widespread poverty is often called this.
What is a developing country?
Government can attract industry using these incentives.
What are tax breaks or subsidies?
A person who leaves their country due to war or persecution.
What is a refugee?
Natural disasters often cause this kind of migration.
What is environmental migration?
Research and development work belong to this high-level sector.
What is the quaternary sector?
This term describes the gap in development between the richest and poorest countries.
What is the development gap?
The term for a location with a cluster of similar industries.
What is an industrial park or agglomeration?
This type of migration involves crossing international borders.
What is international migration?
High crime rates would be considered this.
What is a push factor?
CEOs and high-level decision-makers work in this top-level economic sector.
What is the quinary sector?
The term for countries transitioning from agriculture to industry and seeing rapid economic growth.
What are newly industrialized countries (NICs)?
This theory explains where businesses should locate based on minimizing transport, labor, and agglomeration costs.
What is Weber’s Least Cost Theory?
When people are forced to migrate against their will.
What is forced migration?
A stable government and strong economy are examples of these.
What are pull factors?